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Eradis
2023-07-10, 06:55 AM
Greetings fellow member of this awesome community!

TL/DR: Looking into 3 free archetypes and need help choosing which one.

I am currently playing a Druid in a Pathfinder 2e game and I seek your guidance and wisdom to help me make my decision about the free archetype I am given at level 2.

I have started as a Leaf Druid to get the delicious Goodberries, the Leshy Familiar and an additional Focus point, although I have my eyes set on Wild Shape, which I am getting with my level up with Order Explorer (I will see how it goes and either keep focusing on the wild forms or the support of the leaf order).

Now level 2, I have to choose my Free Archetype (allowed by the DM to add flavor to characters). Here's my three contenders:

Familiar Master Dedication -> Better familiar = more utility - I mostly use mine passively because of its squishy-ness; I'm using Burrow to keep it out of harm's way and the refocus for an extra berry
Beastmaster Dedication -> I like having companions at my control. Although I intend to focus more on my character development than on my animal companion during level ups. Regardless of its efficiency, I love the RP aspect of it.
Herbalist Dedication -> Would work well with a better familiar, but surely brings more utility for the whole team, such as healing that I need not dispense.


What would you choose and why?

Extra info: My character is in a party of four (Druid, Champion, Rogue, Bard)

Lord Torath
2023-07-10, 08:44 AM
You'll probably get better results posting/moving this thread to the D&D 3e/3.5e/d20 (https://forums.giantitp.com/forumdisplay.php?59-D-amp-D-3e-3-5e-d20) forum. I'm pretty sure that's where all the Pathfinder stuff (both editions) (https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?652597-Subforum-for-Pathfinder-2e) goes.

Eradis
2023-07-10, 11:45 AM
You'll probably get better results posting/moving this thread to the D&D 3e/3.5e/d20 (https://forums.giantitp.com/forumdisplay.php?59-D-amp-D-3e-3-5e-d20) forum. I'm pretty sure that's where all the Pathfinder stuff (both editions) (https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?652597-Subforum-for-Pathfinder-2e) goes.

Thank you. I just did.

stack
2023-07-11, 01:06 PM
Animal companions fall off hard if you don't grab the relevant feats on time.

If you don't care about power/efficiency, then...do whatever strikes your fancy.

Champion (assuming tenants of good) has lay on hands, so out of combat healing is at least somewhat covered. More options would reduce the time required, but the difference between one OOC healer and two is smaller than between zero and one.

gesalt
2023-07-12, 12:04 PM
If you're stuck with those three, beastmaster is the best of the bunch. You need something to do after casting and commanding an animal is good enough until you get better options, by which point it will be mature and have an action for itself anyway. Just make sure you only ever take dex options for it. Even after the nerf, they're still better than str options.